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  Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 Thunderstorms can generate various forms of transient luminous events, such as red sprites, gigantic jets, and blue jets, through the charge transfer involved in the lightning forged inside thunderclouds. Based on the Lightning Effects Research Platform (LERP), a research team from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the location results for the parent lightning strokes of more than 30 red sprites observed over an asymmetric mesoscale convective system ... read more |
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Chile rules out negotiating over Bolivian maritime passage claimsSantiago (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 Chile will not negotiate with Bolivia over the latter's territorial claims to land lost in a 19th century war between the two countries, foreign affairs minister Roberto Ampuero said on Friday. ... more  
Mineral weathering from thawing permafrost can release substantial CO2Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 The amount of carbon dioxide released from thawing permafrost might be greater than previously thought, according to a new study by University of Alberta ecologists. The research is the first to doc ... more  
How plants harness microbes to get nutrientsNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 A Rutgers-led team has discovered how plants harness microbes in soil to get nutrients, a process that could be exploited to boost crop growth, fight weeds and slash the use of polluting fertilizers ... more  
How mammal backbones changed during evolutionBoston MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 Just about any elementary school student can rattle off the characteristics that make mammals special - they're warm-blooded, have fur or hair and nearly all are born alive. A new study sugges ... more |
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EU palm oil ban sows bitter seeds for Southeast Asian farmersLangkat/Ijok, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 24, 2018 Indonesian palm oil farmer Kawal Surbakti says his livelihood is under attack, but the threat is not from insects or hungry orangutans eating his prized crop. ... more  
Tornado batters area near Canadian capital OttawaOttawa (AFP) Sept 22, 2018 More than 200,000 people in Canada's capital region of Ottawa were without power on Saturday and two people were critically injured after a powerful tornado ripped apart dozens of homes and threw cars into the air. ... more  
Rohingya crisis: UN has 'no right to interfere' says Myanmar army chiefYangon (AFP) Sept 24, 2018 Myanmar's army chief said the United Nations had no right to interfere in the sovereignty of the country a week after a UN probe called for him and other top generals to be prosecuted for "genocide" against the Rohingya minority. ... more 
Lebanon navy rescues dozens from sinking Cyprus-bound boatBeirut (AFP) Sept 22, 2018 Lebanon's navy rescued dozens of people, including Syrians, from a sinking boat off the country's northern coast on Saturday, the military and a security source said, adding one child had died. ... more 
Toll jumps to 29 in central Philippine landslideManila (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 The death toll from a landslide in the central Philippines has risen to 29, police said Friday, as rescuers frantically dug for survivors of the latest tragedy in the storm-hit nation. ... more |
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Lake Victoria, African lifeline regularly hit by sinkingsNairobi (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 Lake Victoria is the biggest lake in Africa and crossed every day by scores of boats that are often poorly maintained and overloaded, making them vulnerable to poor weather. ... more  |
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'Say no to China': Anger mounts in Zambia over Beijing's presenceLusaka (AFP) Sept 23, 2018 "China equals Hitler" said the sign held up in the Zambian capital Lusaka by a protester opposed to Beijing's tightening grip on the economy of the southern African nation. ... more  
Vatican delegation 'to visit China this month': state mediaHong Kong (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 The Vatican could send a delegation to China by the end of the month, Beijing's state-run media said Tuesday, with the visit potentially paving the way for a historic agreement on the appointment of bishops. ... more 
Hong Kong bans pro-independence party over 'national security' fearsHong Kong (AFP) Sept 24, 2018 Hong Kong banned a political party which promotes independence on Monday, saying it was a threat to national security as Beijing ups pressure on any challenges to its sovereignty. ... more 
Quick and not-so-dirty: A rapid nano-filter for clean waterMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Australian researchers have designed a rapid nano-filter that can clean dirty water over 100 times faster than current technology. Simple to make and simple to scale up, the technology harness ... more 
Glacial engineering could limit sea-level rise, if we get our emissions under controlMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Targeted engineering projects to hold off glacier melting could slow down the collapse of ice sheets and limit sea-level rise, according to a new study published in the European Geosciences Union jo ... more |
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 Humacao, Puerto Rico (AFP) Sept 19, 2018  Desperate and alone - and with the US government nowhere to be seen - many Puerto Ricans turned to each other for salvation as they faced the furies of Hurricane Maria one year ago.
In the dark weeks that followed they also discovered something precious: a sense of fellowship and belonging that today brightens places like Mariana, a neighborhood transformed by adversity in the storm-ravage ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 
NASA's continued quest to explore our solar system and beyond received a boost of new information this week with three key missions proving not only that they are up and running, but that their science potential is exceptional.
On Sept. 17, 2018, TESS - the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - shared its first science observations. Later in the week, the latest two missions to join NASA ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth. The results will be presented by Christoph Burger at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin.
Four and a half billion years ago, the inner solar syst ... more |
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 Cape Cod MA (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Scientists have known for years that warming global climate is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice sheet in the world. A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), however, shows that the rate of melting might be temporarily increased or decreased by two existing climate patterns: the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscilla ... more |
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 Pau, France (AFP) Sept 20, 2018 
Dozens of farmers and local officials stormed out of a meeting with France's new environment minister on Friday as he confirmed two more bears would soon be released into the Pyrenees mountains.
Around 40 brown bears currently roam the range between France and Spain after France began importing them from Slovenia in 1996 after the native population had been hunted to near-extinction.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 
A new experimental weather satellite no bigger than a cereal box got an inside look at Hurricane Florence in a test of technology that could influence the future of storm monitoring from space. The satellite took its first images of Hurricane Florence on Tuesday, Sept. 11, just hours after its instrument was turned on.
TEMPEST-D, which deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International S ... more |
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 Algiers (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 
Algeria's defence ministry on Tuesday announced its air force chief has been sacked, amid a broad shake-up of the country's military hierarchy.
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah was to chair a ceremony on Tuesday at which major-general Hamid Boumaiza would assume the role of air force chief, the ministry said.
The event would see Boumaiza "replace major-general Abdelkader Loun ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Analysis of bones, from what was once the world's largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought - according to a study published, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances.
A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London) discovered that anci ... more |
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 Montreal (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 
Fighting global warming will necessarily require taxing carbon emissions, or setting a price on carbon pollution, the World Bank's chief executive said Wednesday at a G7 environment meeting in Canada.
"We believe very strongly that we can send an economic signal by introducing a shadow price for carbon," Kristalina Georgieva told AFP, referring to a method of calculating a price per tonne of ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2018 
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured new imagery of variations in surface-temperature patterns in Los Angeles County. The first of its kind to be taken by the agency's newest Earth-observing mission, it is more detailed than previous imagery and, unlike prior imagery, was acquired at different times of the day.
ECOSTRESS measures s ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago.
The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and was oval shaped with rib-like segments running along its body, was part of th ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 1, 2018 
As the stultifying summer heat sends Iraqis in search of cool spots, restaurateur Ali Hussein provides sanctuary - even though it means hooking up to an expensive generator.
"The clients must be comfortable when they eat," said Hussein, who stakes his reputation on ensuring customers are constantly blasted by air conditioning.
Outside, temperatures at this time of year can reach 50 degr ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Yotta Solar, a developer of innovative energy storage systems, is introducing a revolution in solar PV plus energy storage technology - the SolarLEAFTM. The patented SolarLEAFTM utilizes the world's first and only 100% passive thermal regulation system for panel-level energy storage.
This passive temperature regulation enables the system to operate in extreme temperatures while protecting ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 
A Rutgers-led team has discovered how plants harness microbes in soil to get nutrients, a process that could be exploited to boost crop growth, fight weeds and slash the use of polluting fertilizers and herbicides.
In a process the team has named the "rhizophagy cycle" (rhizophagy means root eating), bacteria and fungi cycle between a free-living phase in the soil and a plant-dependent pha ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 
The Vatican could send a delegation to China by the end of the month, Beijing's state-run media said Tuesday, with the visit potentially paving the way for a historic agreement on the appointment of bishops.
Beijing and the Vatican severed ties in 1951, two years after the Communist party seized power in China.
The decades-long standoff has split China's roughly 12 million Catholics bet ... more |
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 Gloucester Point VA (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 
When Florence slogged ashore in North Carolina last week, coastal wetlands offered one of the best lines of defense against the hurricane's waves and surge.
A new study predicts such wetlands will survive rising seas to buffer the world's coastlines against future storms and provide their many other ecological and economic benefits, but only if humans preserve the room needed for the wetla ... more |
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